After I Left They All Said They Loved Me Chapter 01
After successfully completing the objective, the system stripped away my ability to love, exchanging it for the power to let my entire family foresee the future.
Simply because their lives would otherwise be in mortal danger.
I had intended to stay anyway, and seeing me sacrifice myself for their sake, Mom and Dad were moved beyond words.
My fiancé swore to the heavens:
“I will take care of you for the rest of my life.”
I lost the emotions of a normal person.
Caleb Brooks worked during the day, yet he frequently had to rush back to take care of me due to my erratic behavior.
He was harshly reprimanded by his boss and nearly lost his job, yet he still held me in his arms and comforted me.
Mom tried every way possible to tell me stories, and Dad emptied his savings, doing everything he could to make me happy.
As time passed, I still maintained a perpetual, emotionless expression.
But suddenly, the doors in our house were no longer locked.
I accidentally wandered off, only to find Mom, Dad, and Caleb surrounding my sister, Vivian, who was wearing a wedding dress.
Seeing me approach, Caleb didn’t hide; instead, he exhaustedly pinched the bridge of his nose:
“In the system’s timeline, we’ve already spent a lifetime together.”
“Can you just move on?”
***
Caleb’s eyes were numb.
“In the foreseen future, we have already grown old together.”
“In reality, can we leave the opportunity of marriage to Viv?”
He looked at my expression.
“Unless you truly have me in your heart. I’m just too tired.”
But I couldn’t express any emotion, so I could only nod gently: “Is it me who makes you feel so tired?”
But don’t worry, I won’t be a burden to them for much longer.
He froze.
His face twisted into something halfway between a sob and a sneer.
Caleb grabbed his hair:
“How am I supposed to explain this to you! Why can’t you understand human words?”
Watching him like this, I quickly waved my hands:
“I understand. I will leave you all.”
“I mean it.”
But Caleb’s expression turned even uglier.
His chest heaved violently a few times: “You should be kneeling down and begging me, begging me not to leave you.”
Looking at his devastated look.
I obediently knelt down, even though this was not my intention at all.
None of them knew.
The system’s targeted deprivation of my ability to love didn’t mean I couldn’t perceive emotions; rather, it made me unable to express them correctly.
Just like right now.
While bitterness brewed in my heart, I still kept a straight face, complying with whatever they said.
“I’m affecting your dress selection by being here.”
Caleb forcefully squeezed his eyes shut: “You always have this expression, this tone of voice. Can you act like a normal person?”
“How long are you going to keep pretending? If I told you to go die, would you do that too?”
After he said that, his expression froze on his face.
Caleb never used to treat me like this.
When my emotions were first extracted, my memories were also temporarily impaired.
I would forget many things right after doing them.
He would tirelessly repeat them to me, piece by piece.
The faded sticky notes are still kept safely in my box to this day.
Caleb snapped back to reality, and seeing me charge straight toward a pillar, his expression abruptly changed:
“I didn’t mean it like that. You became like this for our sake, how could I…”
Caleb took a few steps forward, approached me, and pulled me into his arms.
Resting his chin on my shoulder, he trembled with sobs.
My eyes stung a little.
Yet a smile was forced onto my face, causing Caleb’s parted lips to freeze:
“Do you find my genuine display of emotion ridiculous?”
He shook his head: “I’m just too tired. I’m only human, too. I shouldn’t have had any expectations of you.”
Caleb opened the door of the Belle En Blanc Boutique for me.
But Mom and Dad called out to stop me from behind.
“Evie, come inside. We’re worried about you being outside by yourself.”
Vivian was wearing a wedding dress—the exact one I had admired countless times when passing by.
She looked at me with a smile:
“Sister, is it okay if I wear this dress to marry Caleb?”
“Marry who?” I repeated unconsciously.
My mind felt entirely empty, and I stood up almost instantly.
Caleb, seeing my reaction, grabbed my hands excitedly: “You still have feelings for me, right?”
I slowly looked at him.
Unable to control my facial muscles, a wide smile completely took over my face the very next moment.
The spark in his eyes dimmed inch by inch.
“I shouldn’t have held out any hope for you.”
Mom bit her lip and stepped in front of me: “You have to understand Caleb. He has stood by you for so many years; it’s just been too hard on him.”
I understood.
But my face stayed blank. It always did.
She held my hand and wiped the tears from her own cheeks.
“After all these years, we’ve truly done our best.”
Mom turned away, refusing to look at me.
Vivian clenched her fists, tears streaming down her face:
“She’s just faking it!”
“Our family hasn’t had a single accident in all these years! None of the disasters you supposedly foresaw ever happened!”
“If that’s not lying and attention-seeking, what is?”
In the past.
Dad would have flown into a rage and stopped Vivian’s nonsense, and Mom would have patiently covered my ears.
But now, they just looked at each other.
I was the only one sitting there with a numb expression: “But if it weren’t for me, you would have died.”
The people around me looked at me like I was a psychopath.
“Did she just… curse her own parents?”
“Jesus. She’s out of her mind.”
Once the onlookers left.
A vase from a high pedestal smashed down, barely missing Mom and Dad’s faces.
While they were reeling in shock, the voice of the system echoed.
[Host, your life has entered its final countdown. Ten days remaining.]
[Is it really worth shielding these people from disasters with your own life?]
